How to have people over for dinner without losing your cool.

First we extend hospitality – gracious service and welcoming love – to those who live in our home and then we extend it out to others God brings into our lives.

Show Notes

But when we get our picture of what hospitality should look like from the magazine rack or HGTV, we stress out and shut down.

The kind of hospitality God wants us to offer, however, is not according to worldly standards. The world’s goal for hospitality is to impress. God’s goal for hospitality is to knit. Through opening our doors and our lives to one another, we grow as a community. When we gather as a church body and share a meal and our lives, our love and fellowship deepens. When we gather in those outside, we show them what it’s like inside – inside the bounds of God’s family, God’s body, God’s community.

Hospitality is not about showing off or impressing others. So we do not have to postpone it until the kitchen reno is complete, until the yard is gorgeous, or until we feel ready. We simply invite others into life, as is.

That said, there are 3 ways I simplify the process and make it less stressful, less burdensome, to regularly have people over.

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